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First impressions - I have never driven a car with manual brakes/manual steering. It is a completely different feel. Luckily this car is so light the non-powersteering isn't hard to steer at all. As far as power goes, I probably only used 50 hp or so si I can't comment on that too much yet.. We are having coolant issues right now (air bubbles & burping the system) which we are working on figuring out. This is both mine and my dads first time working on a subaru motor so we are learning all of the tricks and techniques.

First impressions - I have never driven a car with manual brakes/manual steering. It is a completely different feel. Luckily this car is so light the non-powersteering isn't hard to steer at all. As far as power goes, I probably only used 50 hp or so si I can't comment on that too much yet.. We are having coolant issues right now (air bubbles & burping the system) which we are working on figuring out. This is both mine and my dads first time working on a subaru motor so we are learning all of the tricks and techniques.

If you don't have certain stock water tubes run near the thermostat, it may not open. The thermostat regulates water flowing into the engine at the bottom. - so cool water from the radiator will not open it. With my mid engined build ( http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show....php?t=2494976 ), I replaced the thermostat with a restrictor supplied by Outfront Motorsports, so there is always flow. Somebody gave me the heads up on this, so I'm passing it along.

Thanks for the heads up. I think we are going to keep the thermostat. We drove it some more this weekend and the temp didn't seem to go over 180* so we think we've figured out the coolant problems. We got the fan to kick in as we'll during idle. We'll have to double check everything next weekend.